Construction Scheduler
Location:
Job ID: 1839813
Client summary:
Our client is an award-winning commercial general contractor based in Minneapolis. They specialize in multi-family, mixed use and hospitality projects and have established themselves as the go-to-firm when it comes to managing complex projects and delivering them to the highest standards. Their portfolio is filled with many success stories, but they’re most proud of the strong relationships they’ve built and continue to grow. Their relationship-centered approach starts with their employees. They take pride in their desire to become better every day and providing their employees with opportunities to develop both personally and professionally. They’re committed to excellence and looking for people who will contribute to the company’s growth.
Responsibilities:
- Establish project milestones for Superintendents to achieve
- Organize and maintain the scheduling management system through supporting identified projects and their plans for the commercial division
- Set up tasks and sub tasks to ensure satisfactory realization of project contract requirements as scheduled
- Keep track of project time-lines and maintain database of tasks and statuses
- Log all new information into database and provide scheduled reports for contract coordination and reporting purposes
- Communicate with customer and project staff to schedule work and coordinate assignments
- Interact with project team and task managers to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan
- Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify potential problem areas
- Analyze critical road blocks to determine effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-around
- Develop and update weekly short internal schedule working with Superintendents
- Identify risks affecting project profit, costs, schedules and client relations
- Encourage project management team to maintain timely and effective change management processes, procedures and systems
- Conduct on-going analysis to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Construction Management or equivalent experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work well independently as well as with a team
- Exceptional attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
- Prior experience in construction industry highly preferred
- Excellent software skills including expert level skills in Microsoft Project